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The DMK president M K Stalin (second from left) with the Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi (second from right) during a meeting of opposition parties in 2018. Tamil Nadu, where the DMK now controls the state government, has for the past ten years been a bulwark against Modi, the BJP and the right-wing politics that has swept much of India. Photo: IMAGO/Hindustan Times
Politics

Tamil Nadu has led the fight against the BJP and the Modi model

Building on an inclusive Dravidian politics, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has provided leadership to the opposition alliance countering the Bharatiya Janata Party, and Tamil Nadu has shown a better p ...
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A S Panneerselvan

Podcasts

In ‘Provincials’, Sumana Roy argues that the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore was in fact a provincial writer. Tagore replaced the nature of old and urban Bangla literature with the flow of what he saw in the provinces of undivided Bengal. And like most provincials, Tagore had, without knowing it, been reading world literature all his life. Photo: IMAGO / Xinhua
Podcast

Southasia Review of Books Podcast #04: Sumana Roy on literature from the Southasian provinces

In her latest book ‘Provincials’, Sumana Roy explores how writings from the peripheries offers an alternative portrait of the modern Subcontinent
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